Where: Falcon, Venezuela (7.0° N, 72.0° W: paleocoordinates 6.6° N, 69.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mammonal zone zone, Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• Part of the Damsite series
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: yellow claystone and siliciclastic
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1937. Gyrocarpus and other fossil plants from the Cumarebo field in Venezuela. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 27(12):501-506 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 31244: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 25.04.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Angiospermae | |
Mimosites suteri n. sp.
Mimosites suteri n. sp. | |
Colubrina miocenica buckthorn | |
Leguminosites cuquensis n. sp.
Leguminosites cuquensis n. sp. legume | |
Anacardites americanus cashew | |
Caladiosoma miocenica Berry 1925 |